Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taxes poured fuel on a fire that was already raging nearly out of control, largely because of the volatile Proposition 13, which goes before California's voters next week. Perhaps the most emotional issue to sweep across the state in a generation, the celebrated proposition has gathered astonishing grass-roots support. It has at least a fifty-fifty chance of becoming law. If it does, property taxes for all Californians will be slashed by 57%, beginning July 1. City, county, town and school administrators figure that they would lose some $7 billion a year. Either they would have...
...taking an old idea and running with it," he says. As far back as 1844, Germany's Friedrich von Martens and his Panorama-Kamera took a 150°-angle photo of Paris on a curved daguerreotype plate. After the invention of flexible film, other cameras were designed to sweep the horizons. Dantzic's choice, the 50-lb.. Cirkut sits on a tripod and is rotated on a vertical axis by a clockwork mechanism, while its film is moved at the same speed past its aperture...
...have taken the final revolutionary step toward total liberation. Our children swab their own bathroom! They also swab ours! Indeed, they vacuum the rugs, do the laundry and the grocery shopping, help prepare meals, do all the cleaning up after meals, make their own beds, clean their rooms, dust, sweep and polish surfaces as needed and sew occasional buttons on their father's shirts...
Martha Roberts came back in the doubles with her sister Sally to threaten the Dartmouth sweep once more. Playing the team of Awad and Wendell for the third time and as many losses, the Roberts duo was "really fired up," according to Coach Peter Felske...
...sweep was not forthcoming. Steve Meister gave the Princetonians their third win when he fought off a pair of set points in the second set of his fifth singles match versus Kevin Shaw, then polished off Shaw with a 5-3 tiebreaker...